- ban, banning, forbiddance, forbidding - an official prohibition or edict against something
--1 is a kind of prohibition
--1 has particulars: test ban
- ban - prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure; "Smoking is banned in this building"
--1 is one way to forbid, prohibit, interdict, proscribe, veto, disallow
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun ban4, noun ban1
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s VERB-ing
- ban, censor - forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)
--2 is one way to outlaw, criminalize, criminalise, illegalize, illegalise
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun ban4, noun ban1
Sam and Sue ban the movie
- banish, ban - ban from a place of residence, as for punishment
--3 is one way to expel, throw out, kick out
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- banish, ban, ostracize, ostracise, shun, cast out, blackball - expel from a community or group
--4 is one way to expel, throw out, kick out
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody